The Global Protection Cluster (GPC) brings together UN agencies, NGOs and international organizations working on protection-related themes in humanitarian response, including those working on human rights and in child protection, gender-based violence, mine action and housing, land and property rights.

In November 2011, the Global Protection Cluster agreed that it needs to develop the present strategy to set out the broad framework under which it should operate and to highlight the overarching objectives of its work. It provides an overview of protection concerns, the cluster’s agreed strategic priorities in response and the approach the cluster intends to take over the coming three years.